Local Media: US, Not Taliban, Killed Afghan BBC Reporter
BBC Urges NATO Inquiry Into Disputed Reports
When the Taliban launched attacks on the Uruzgan Province last Thursday, it was reported that a local BBC reporter, Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, was among those slain by them. The Taliban denied this, but it was given very little credence at the time.
Local media reports, however, now suggest that the reporter survived the Taliban bombings and was actually shot by US troops in the wake of a gunbattle in the area. The BBC is now asking NATO for a “full inquiry” into the killing.
An odd aspect of this is that the initial reports of fighting were centered almost exclusively around the marketplace, which was not where Khpulwak was.
The 25 year old reporter had worked for the BBC since 2008, and was at a local TV station in Tarin Kowt when the attacks hit in the area. NATO insisted it “assesses every civilian casualty allegation” and will do so in the case of the reporter.
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thedissenter
August 2nd, 2011 at 11:59 am
Killing reporters (among others) is all in a day's work for the almighty United States of Assassins.
Valerianus
August 2nd, 2011 at 12:54 pm
The FedGov troops talk amongst themselves about how they would like to kill journalists.
JLS
August 2nd, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Yea but it used to be that the rest of the journalists were outraged and this story would be on every news outlet until the government was pressured into doing something. Now they are such lapdogs that they don't even care when one of their own gets killed.